Transexpace

(SPANISH TEXT BELOW – TEXTO ESPAÑOL ABAJO)

Transexpace: Galactic Revoltis an experimental queer project which has taken the shape of a photo-novela, a short-film and various performances based on body extensions and pieces by Anna Maria Staiano. This high gloss science fiction fantasy subverts the stereotypical genre of the photo-novella in a universe populated by Amazonian warriors, androgynous diplomats and genderbenders.

Transexpace – Photo by Alejandro Sánchez

Ximo Rochera, (Director of Ediciones Canibaal) is responsible for the text and the Eva Pez for the layout of the photo-novela whilst Alejandro Sánchez was the main photographer and Toni Cordero provided photo-montages of la Tzarina and Queer Matter. The performers who participated in the project are: Abel Baguena, Graham Bell Tornado, Carolina Boluda, Josey Heyes, Eva Pez, Jennifer Picken, Isaac Torres, Lili Tras Tras and Mad Vicious.

An article by Ximo Rochera about Transexpace has been published in the magazine of art and literature Canibaal and it can be found at this web link:Una Revuelta Galáctica

The project has been presented at the IVAM, Institute of Modern Arts in Valencia, as part of the BiennalMelting Point on the 29th April 2018, with the launch of the photo-movela, a screening of the short film and am exhibition of various body pieces made for it. Another presentation took place at the International Conference Atenea: Women in Art & Tech at the Arts Faculty of the University Polytechnic of Valencia followed by the screening of the short film on the 29th June 2018.

Work-in-progress versions of the experimental short FILM based on the photo-novella have been screened at the Intramurs Arts Festival in Valencia and in the “Deep Trash from Outer Space” event organised by CUNTemporary Arts in London in October 2016 and at the LGTB Zinegoak Film Festival in Bilbao in February 2017 in a session of live performance and shorts by La Erreria (House of Bent)and Graham Bell Tornado.

As well as being shown at the IVAM presentation and at the Atenea Conference in Valencia, the final vesion of the short has been premiered in NosGusTrans. the 1st Trans Film Festival in Spain, which took place in the MACA Museum in Alicante on 13th April 2018 and it is participating in the Biennal of Feminist Video-Art Fem Tour Truckwhich will be touring various countries in South America and Europa in 2018/19 such as: Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina, Spain, France and Edinburgh.

Amongst the PERFORMANCES based on Transexpace. The first was a Tableaux Vivantduring the Corporeactive Show at Le petit Canibaal (Valencia, 2014). Another performance which culminated in a Tableaux Vivant, took place at the IVAM, Valencian Museum of Modern Arts on the 21 April 2016 as part of the Biennal Melting Point with the participation of Isaac Torres (narrator), Carolina Boluda, Graham Bell Tornado, Eva Pez, Abel Baguena and Jennifer Picken.